A resident’s decision to join an ASEZ is not only guided by financial considerations, but to a large extent by the business climate, too. The business climate in Russia is driven by differences in management teams and ways in which the authorities can effectively work with a preferential regime. There is a need for a healthy business climate and effective institutions. Municipal and state governance must be at a high level

The main idea is to find a specific feature for each Russian region in order to maximize its potential. Smart specialization is the maximum combination of all factors in the region that would allow to be remarkably more effective in one or another area of development, and to make it a competitive advantage of the region

The whole development of small and medium-sized businesses in the next few years is packed in a national project. 481.5 billion roubles is the total amount of funds allocated for the implementation of this national project by 2024. <...> Small and medium-sized business is to get a 32% share of the national GDP and 25 million people employed as a result of this project's implementation. <...> By the end of this year, together with the expert business community, colleagues from government departments we are to propose a set of solutions on the specifics of running small and medium-sized businesses in the Arctic

Entrepreneurs are looking for an opportunity to register their business in a straightforward regulatory environment, unlike the Arctic with its peculiarities. <...> One of the factors that affect the number of entrepreneurs here [in the North, - Ed.] is the features of social legislation that require Northern allowance for employees

The greatest value of training is being in a community and sharing ideas. The most important thing is not even what you hear from coaches, teachers and lecturers, but what is happening beyond the classrooms and auditoriums. Networking, ideas, communication, meeting new people – all this helps to form a completely new vision on interaction

Frequently investors are not that worried about property exemptions or special taxation schemes <…> They believe the cornerstone is unchanged rules they used to enter a special regime, personal involvement of the region’s leader, and readiness <…> to honestly resolve the arising issues

We need to pick up and codify the best experience available and then turn it into a new special preferential regime. Its point is to provide a special set of support measures depending on the region, the project, the investors that are ready to enter the region and the investment volume. This will help find a more flexible approach to create special tools, the region will get an opportunity to select a set of tools for specific project parameters instead of using a fixed set of preferences. At the same time, the conditions the investor used to enter the region should stay unchanged

The first important area of work is significant concentration of efforts to optimize authority of the regions. For many years we have been working on optimizing the burden on small and medium-sized businesses, optimizing control and regulation, introducing procedures that do not allow new damaging regulations that increase costs. As for the regions, such work remained out of our reach. <...> It is important to discuss how to create a mechanism that would prevent new powers from emerging, rather than how to optimize the existing ones

A key challenge is establishing a new coordinate system and understanding the indicators for reaching national goals. What do we need to make it happen? Personnel, for sure. That was discussed in detail today

The draft law on social entrepreneurship is to go through first reading in the State Duma in March. Alongside, we are preparing a draft government resolution where we are to define both the criteria of social entrepreneurship and categories of social practices. Passing these documents will legally define social entrepreneurship as a phenomenon, as a new essential practice

Our recent efforts to promote a movement as vital, beneficial, and incredibly significant as entrepreneurship marks an unprecedented event. We need to adopt non-standard approaches and fully focus on practical solutions. To start with, it is important that we agree on who is our target audience for this project. In my opinion, it is not only made up of entrepreneurs whom we need to assist, it is also made up of people who are not currently entrepreneurs, but would like to become one in the near future, and whom we can help achieve this. Only 2% of Russians today express an interest in running their own business. The potential to increase this figure is genuinely massive

There are sizeable regulatory and taxation barriers for a company that makes a transition from a small one to medium-sized, and in this sense, we want to make this barrier as insignificant as possible so that companies are not afraid to grow and turn into larger ones

The national project for SMEs is the first focus on the problems of small and medium-sized businesses of such scale and significance in our country. In this sense, we expect that it should largely change the picture of the state of affairs in terms of doing business

I am very pleased that youth entrepreneurship gets more and more attention, and today, thanks to your efforts and your interest, we receive more grassroots demand for us to support it as a particular sphere

It would be nice to additionally focus on unconventional sources of funding — ones that don’t presume the existence of any physical infrastructure: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, factoring — these are what could serve as an additional source of funds for entrepreneurs, and what has been forgotten for some reason today

We should once again take a look at the channels of communication with entrepreneurs. There is still demand for convenient, comfortable, and high-quality channels for interaction between entrepreneurs and the authorities [...] We should also focus on the use of digital platforms and electronic methods of interaction. This is something that will seriously enhance the convenience of working with support institutions — a format in which entrepreneurs can learn about services, receive services, and interact with the authorities and development institutions all within a single window. This is something that has been talked about for a long time, but we still haven’t managed to realize at all

There are over 430 kinds of territorial support regimes in the Russian Federation. <…> Even though each of these institutions is sufficiently developed, <…> the similarity of support tools often confuses both investors and operating residents. <…> In the future, they (support tools) <…> could be more customized and adapt to the types of operations that a certain resident plans to implement

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